Interferon activity of mitogen-induced chicken splenic lymphocytes which do not express interferon mRNA

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 53, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 269-275

  Agarwal, Sunita K ^a,b   Cloud, Sandra S ^a   Burnside, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Chicken interferon; Fibroblasts; Lymphocytes

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; EMBRYO; FIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; SPLEEN CELL; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS;

EID: 0030272276     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-2427(95)05542-8     Document Type: Article

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